I had ravaging  teenage acne. Just when I had started to pluck enough courage to crawl out of my rural shell, and replace the  book dust  on my clothes with human...

The child abuse/sex crimes investigations in Britain right now are in themselves turning into a travesty of justice, with dead politicians like the Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath subjected...

I was completely unaware of the case until I was reading (still am) for reviewing purposes an account of the speeches made at what was called The President’s Forum which took place on 21 April...

The social media is regularly agog with complaints and protestations over the fact that Malta is suddenly replete with foreigner workers who cannot speak the national language. Many of them working in...

Protection of the environment is not achieved in proportion to the number of authorities established to deal with the environment, resources and land use planning. In fact, subject to sound...

At present we are enduring more than our fair share of troubles on the home front.   Families face indiscriminate power cuts, exorbitant costs for students and women who work to get around...

I cannot understand why positive news from the Catholic Church does not get much coverage in the local media. Perhaps, the contractors’ lobby is too strong on our Island. However, the TOM did...

In her column in this newspaper, Marlene Farrugia was tempted, as I was, to write a light non-political piece about the beauty of life, and romanticize in poetic prose the wonders of a Maltese August...

The time has long come for somebody to write a history of the Maltese economy in modern times, say from the end of the Second World War to right now. Extended narratives about political and even...

I will tell you all about Pebbles in a moment! Let’s start from the very essence of being human.   I think that life at times or should I say very often, ‘gives us’ lemons...